[Rarebooks] FS: Italian Maiolica & Hispano-Moresque Pottery -1928 Woodward Collection

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

"Catalogue of a Collection of Pottery belonging to W.H. Woodward”

By Tancred Borenius.
Privately printed in 1928.

An elegant catalog of superb 16th century Italian maiolica, with some 
additional Turkish, Hispano-Moresque and Persian examples also included. 
The text begins with an overview of Italian and related maiolica of the 
period, illustrated with 8 b/w plates, which is followed by the catalog 
itself, illustrated with 17 additional plates. The cataloger, Tancred 
Borenius [1885-1948] was a Finnish art historian who specialized in 
Renaissance Italy and was a professor at University College, London. The 
author of a number of art histories, he was a member of the Burlington 
Fine Arts Club, one of the founders of Apollo magazine and wrote for 
Apollo and Burlington magazines as well. Quite an uncommon, 
privately-printed catalog.

Hardcover. 10.5"x12", xv + 38 pages, plus 25 b/w plates with tissue 
guards. Original quarter vellum and cloth with leather spine label. 
Covers quite bright and nice. Contents with moderate foxing to the 
endsheets and some light foxing on a few interior pages. $175-

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